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| Jan |
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| Ginger |
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| Manual |
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| Mary |
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| Neeta |
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| Keiko |
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| Sharon |
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| Susan J. |
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
WATERCOLORS OF LANDSCAPE FROM A HIGH POINT OF VIEW, May-June 2015
An unusual point of view can make a watercolor interesting. For this class, students painted the view from a window on a high floor of the library looking on to the campus of San Jose State. They were inspired by Wayne Thiebaud's city views.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
WATERCOLORS OF CLOUDS USING NEUTRAL COLORS
Students practiced painting neutrals by mixing colors that are opposite on the color palette. They then did paintings of skies which had gray clouds.
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| Ginger |
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| Neeta |
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| Susan H. |
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| Susan J. |
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| Mary |
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| Keiko |
WATERCOLOR CLASS ON PAINTING FOOD
After looking at paintings of meals and dishes on tables by Pierre Bonnard, students used their own photos to paint food.
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| Keiko |
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| Manuel |
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| Mary |
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| Ginger |
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| Susan |
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| Neeta |
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| Jan |
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| Sharon |
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| Susan |
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
WATERCOLOR CLASS May-June 2015 A RED PAINTING
A RED PAINTING
In this class, students painted a still life with all red objects. The problem was how to differentiate each object from another. Students were allowed to choose whether to include a red rose in the still life, and all students accepted the challenge. The rose interpretations came out very well!
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| Manuel |
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| Ginger |
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| Lynn |
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| Sharon |
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| Mary |
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| Susan |
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| Neeta |
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| Keiko |
Thursday, April 30, 2015
FIFTH AND SIXTH CLASS, April 16 and April 23
The three paintings below show views of Kathleen's garden. In each one, the view gets closer to the wall with the art work. It is like walking in the garden.
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| Kathleen |
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| Kathleen |
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| Kathleen |
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| Savethri |
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| Susan |
In another project, Kathleen did three interpretations of one view in her garden.
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| Kathleen |
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| Kathleen |
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
SECOND CLASS, March 19, 2015
For this class, students followed step by step to paint the ocean, but there was much variety among the paintings. Some turned out looking like sunsets, or sunrises, or moonlight. The lesson was to practice aerial perspective.
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| Lynn |
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| Savithri |
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| Mary |
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| David |
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| Joy |
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| Kathleen |
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| Sashin |
FOURTH CLASS, April 9, 2015
This week students transformed black and white postcards of California missions to Faux-style paintings. They used imaginative color, mostly unmixed, going directly from the palette to the paper.
They used large brushes, broad brushstrokes and pointillist dabs.
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| Kathleen |
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| Sashin |
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| Susan |
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| Joy |
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| David |
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| Mary |
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| Savethri |
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